I‘ve long been obsessed with the bizarrely over-the-top cover art for 1950s men’s “adventure” magazines, in which muscular, often shirtless men face off against an assortment of unlikely animal enemies — from armies of “giant turtles” to squads of flying squirrels. (You can find an assortment of notable covers here.)
More recently, I’ve become obsessed with Google’s Deep Dream software, which can turn any picture you toss at it into a creepy acid nightmare filled with strange Dogslug creatures and a strange surplus of eyes.
And now that I’ve found a handy web interface for the Deep Dream software, I decided to combine these two obsessions into one. The results were, well, interesting.
Panda
Oh sorry, the first one is a blog called pro male antifeminist tech that has all the antifeminist and misogyny pages listed and the second is chimp mania which is extremely racist and ableist. I put Jb’s link down because she has new articles up.
I did one of Paul Elam from an article I just posted (it’s about his defense of Bill Cosby, and it’s horrendous). I wonder if I can link to it directly or somethin.
https://dreamscopeapp.com/i/900012
Here’s a petition to shut down chimpmania
https://www.change.org/p/matthew-prince-remove-chimpmania-com-permanently
chimpmania is horrendous, yikes.
I’ve written a couple of posts about the antifeminist tech one; he comes out with bizarre stuff periodically.
oh, and I ran that elam one through a couple more filters
https://dreamscopeapp.com/i/907029
Der fyck what is wrong with people.
Paul Elam looks like a pile of eyes and dog faces. Quite the improvement I must say 🙂
I saw that article by Elam, Miss Andry. I hope he blotted that thing before it could drip misogyny all over the rug — the only product that works on spots like those is puppy urine spray.
Anyway, sorry to derail but I thought it interesting that Davis Aurini has just posted a 40 minute rough draft of The Sarkeesian Effect on his youtube channel. I think maybe I have never seen so much mockery fodder crammed into such a short time period. This is going to be big – A Mockery Lollapalooza.
I just had to look at those AVfM memes.
Did you know that being “not commonly considered privileged” is a privileged?
Well, my link got lost. Trust me, it’s under the Unchecked Female Privilege meme.
Dear Scented Fucking Hard Chairs,
Admit it, you put a photo from Angkor Wat through this program, just so you could make that joke.
Sincerely,
The Comments Section of a Blog
OMG, Paul Elam may be the only person who looks less creepy after the dreamscope treatment. Obviously the solution to creepy eyes is more eyes everywhere.
Here’s one I did of Alex Jones:
https://dreamscopeapp.com/i/924305
And Donald Trump. Shit I’m an addict now.
https://dreamscopeapp.com/i/925144
This is the best thread ever.
I have a plugin that puts a quote from Donald Trump in between his name so I’m enjoying refreshing the page and seeing a different quote each time. Now two different quotes.
Hmm I don’t know, look at Davis Aurini: https://dreamscopeapp.com/i/em7h-c4aTH
(or don’t, because both the original and the deep dream-version WILL give you nightmares xD)
We can’t stop here, this is dog country.
Completely OT, but have any of you heard about how the woman who appeared in the Hollaback! video a while back is now suing the director for not paying her?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/woman-who-starred-in-viral-video-highlighting-street-harassment-in-new-york-city-sues-director-10389622.html
@Fruitloopsie,
I clicked on Judgypants’ link, but couldn’t be bothered to read the articles, just more boring carping as she desperately tries to make herself relevant. It does amuse me to see that The Examiner is obviously trying to nudge her away from them.
Just watched the video – this is going to be epic. I can bring beer and vegan chocolate muffins! 🙂
OT but pertinent to one MRA complaint: http://m.newser.com/story/209811/girl-17-sues-for-right-to-register-for-military-draft.html
That Aurini picture… Paging Dr. Lovecraft, Dr. Bierce and Dr. Derleth, your patient has arrived.
*shudder*
No one has mentioned the “Weasels ripped my flesh” Men’s Life cover and Zappa? Had to remedy that. Frank would have loved Deep Dream and undoubtedly have included images from it in in his live shows.
@ Miss Andry and your Donald Trump image. I think that captures something essential about him, although, even Deep dream can’t quite convey the horror that is his hairpiece.
Is it possible to run Deep Dream separately on two parts of an image? Could you make his toupee do it’s own thing?
Would be willing to bet that the next Simpson’s episode with hallucinations in it will look like Deep Dream.
@berdache:
It’s been featured here many, many times. I’m pretty sure someone has mentioned Zappa in relation to it before.